Tiila Abbitt of Aether Beauty
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
Tiila Abbitt is a passionate, highly creative product development professional with 11+ years' experience- including the international prestige beauty industry. Tiila has a BFA in sculpture and an MFA in fashion design. She worked in the fashion industry for over 5 years before transitioning to beauty. Tiila spent 7 years at Sephora in charge of product development for makeup collaborations and accessories. Her obsession with sustainability lead her to become the lead R+D for sustainable materials while also being on the sustainability leadership council for...
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Chef Serena Poon
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
is a leading chef, nutritionist and reiki master to the Hollywood elite. Serena’s passion and career for curating healing and wellness programs using integrative health, holistic nutrition and Culinary Alchemy began long before she started creating contemporary meals, menus and nutritional goodness for the likes of Jerry Bruckheimer, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, and Kerry Washington. Serena’s Culinary Alchemy is the practice of combining intuitive energetic techniques with guidance and education on functional & spiritual nutrition, integrating how food affects our bodies...
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Agriculture Scientist Veronica Leslie
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
Veronica is an Agriculture scientist and female farmer whose academic background in organic food production took foot after her friend and teenage teammate, Chrissy Garavito, hit a homerun, touched home plate and collapsed dead due to a fatal cardiac arrhythmia induced by neurotoxic pesticides. Since the late 90's she has dedicated every waking moment to engineering real and viable non toxic alternatives to industrial farming; most specifically as it pertains to avoiding the use of antibiotics in livestock. After overcoming her own personal health challenges using exclusively...
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PR Maven Amy Stanton
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
With a background in traditional marketing and deep experience in building brands for women, Amy Stanton has a unique perspective on the women’s landscape, the role of femininity in personal and professional lives, and the impact that unleashing our true feminine power can have on happiness. In 2006, Amy founded Stanton & Company, a PR and Marketing agency with a focus on brands created for and by women, with a passion for promoting and building positive female role models and messaging for women. Before founding Stanton &...
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HONOR Mornings founder Kitiya Skye
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
Kitiya was born in Eastern Europe, grew up in Canada and worked in NYC for 6 years as an Advertising Executive at a highly awarded advertising agency. After realizing she felt depleted and unhappy she made a complete 180 and moved to LA to pursue her love of acting and wellness. We talk about staying grounded as an actress and how she deals with being in a rejection and comparison-filled industry. Now a full-time actress and founder of HONOR Mornings™; a 100% organic, vegan, GMO and sweetener free morning smoothie mixture, made with plant protein, supergreens and adaptogenic mushrooms...
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Wellness Architect Alexandra Catalano
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
Before her career as a healthy lifestyle expert, Alexandra was studying to become an opera singer at USC. When she started college she fell into unhealthy eating and lifestyle habits that eventually led her to losing her voice. As she started educating herself about healthy eating, she regained her voice and just started to feel better overall. Amazed that food had the power to heal, she dedicated her life to educating and inspiring people to be more mindful about what’s at the end of their fork. We talk to this cute health advocate about eating well on a budget, some of her favorite recipes...
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Geraldine Ridaura of Holy Matcha
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Founder Geraldine Ridaura was inspired to open Holy Matcha after traveling to Japan and discovering the vibrant green tea. The fact that she can't drink coffee only fueled her excitement to have found such a healthy and delicious replacement. In awe and amazement of all the benefits of matcha, Geraldine set forth on a journey to introduce it to her community in San Diego. Holy Matcha specializes in high-quality matcha beverages, prepared with two grades of ceremonial matcha. We talk to Geraldine about perseverance and hustle despite any fears of opening a brick and mortar business. ...
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Alexa Gray and Co.
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
Alexa is the founder of a boutique content creation and brand management company and makes it her mission to provide brands with a comprehensive range of services to clarify their image, increase visibility and make big strides through thoughtful marketing strategies. In this episode we talk about Alexa's journey into following her intuition and honing her passion and skills to be of service in a highly competitive industry. Follow Alexa at @ Stay up-to-date with us at @ and be sure to follow at @.
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Vie Healing with Mona Dan
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Mona Dan is an acupuncturist specializing in Traditional Oriental Medicine. By identifying the underlying imbalances and making proper diagnosis, she has been successful in improving the health and well-being of her patients. Mona is experienced in Nutrition, Women’s Health, Pain Relief and Overall Rejuvenation. Mona studied Chinese Medicine at Emperors College of Oriental Medicine and and went on to receive her Masters in Traditional Oriental Medicine. Mona tells us about how she is modernizing this ancient modality and introducing wellness to the luxury market through the opening of a...
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Your Hormone Balance with Candace Burch
The Love Beauty Wellness Podcast
Candace Burch is a Hormone Health Educator and founder of Your Hormone Balance, a hormone testing + consulting practice that helps people of all ages detect and correct hormone imbalances that negatively impact health and longevity. Her mission as a wellness advocate is to educate, inspire and guide women towards safe natural approaches to hormone balance and breast cancer prevention. We talk to Candace about how hormone imbalances are affecting so many of all ages today and what can be done to rebalance our hormones. Candace at @ Stay up-to-date with us at @ and be sure to follow at...
info_outlineJust a few years ago, Gigi Goldman was a stay-at-home mom and like so many busy moms, Gigi rarely had time to devote to any kind of beauty routine so she kept it simple and natural. The coconut oil that she used in the kitchen was her secret go-to multi-tasker. The more she used coconut oil, the more she realized that its beauty benefits were simply too good to ignore.
Gigi brought the idea of developing coconut oil specifically for beauty use to her husband who worked in the beauty business and they got to work sourcing and developing the purest coconut oil on the planet. They connected with their partners James Brennan and Kiana Cabell, fellow beauty and wellness enthusiasts, and (ta-da!) Kopari was born!
In this episode we talk about Kopari's new launches such as their sunscreen and deodorant as well as their projects, one of which includes giving back to the people of the Philippines where they source their coconuts.
Follow Gigi at @gigi.goldman and Kopari @koparibeauty.
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